Religious Pluralism and the City: Inquiries into Postsecular Urbanism
Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2018
Series: Book 2 of 5 - Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
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- Title
- Religious Pluralism and the City: Inquiries into Postsecular Urbanism
- Author
- Berking, Helmuth (Editor)/ Steets, Silke (Editor)/ Schwenk, Jochen (Editor)/ Eade, John (Editor)/ Soar, Katy (Editor)
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury USA Academic
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- Brand New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1350037680
- ISBN 13
- 9781350037687
- Item weight
- 0.53 kilograms
- Series
- Book 2 of 5: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
Religious Pluralism and the City challenges the notion that the city is a secular place, and calls for an analysis of how religion and the city are intertwined. It is the first book to analyze the explanatory value of a number of typologies already in use around this topic – from "holy city" to "secular city", from "fundamentalist" to "postsecular city". By intertwining the city and religion, urban theory and theories of religion, this is the first book to provide an international and interdisciplinary analysis of post-secular urbanism.
The book argues that, given the rise of religiously inspired violence and the increasing significance of charismatic Christianity, Islam and other spiritual traditions, the master narrative that modern societies are secular societies has lost its empirical plausibility. Instead, we are seeing the pluralization of religion, the co-existence of different religious worldviews, and the simultaneity of secular and religious institutions that shape everyday life. These particular constellations of "religious pluralism" are, above all, played out in cities.
Including contributions from Peter L. Berger and Nezar Alsayyad, this book conceptually and empirically revokes the dissolution between city and religion to unveil its intimate relationship, and offers an alternative view on the quotidian state of the global urban condition.
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About the Author
Paul-Francois Tremlett is Senior Lecturer of Religious Studies at The Open University, UK
Silke Steets is an independent researcher.
John Eade is Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Roehampton, London, UK, member of the Migration Research Unit, ULC, UK, and Visiting Professor at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, Canada.
Jochen Schwenk is Lecturer and Post-doctoral Researcher at TU Darmstadt, Germany.
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